Thorvaldsen's Cohabitants in Casa Buti
- Nanna Kronberg Frederiksen, arkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk, 2016
- Translation by David Possen
A list of those lodged at Casa Buti, Via Sistina 46-51, Rome, during the first half of the nineteenth century. Casa Buti served as a long-term residence for Bertel Thorvaldsen and other artists, particularly those from Germany and Denmark, and was operated by Camillo and Anna Maria Buti. The Danish poet B. S. Ingemann called Via Sistina “Lykkens Gade”, Street of Happiness, attesting to the heartwarming depth of fellow-feeling among the artists living there.
Where nothing else is indicated, the source is Friedrich Noack, op. cit.
This list is updated at regular intervals.
H. C. Andersen, Thorvaldsen’s House in the Via Sistina, Rome, October 19, 1833,
Hans Christian Andersen Museum, Odense City Museums.
| Person | No. | Arrival (link to documentation) |
Departure (link to documentation) |
| Bertel Thorvaldsen | 46 | May 1804 | 1.10.1842 (24.3.1844) |
| C. F. F. Stanley | – | 9.1.1805 | 18.11.1805 |
| Christian Daniel Rauch | 48-51 | No earlier than 20.1.1805 | No later than 3.2.1811 |
| C. F. Høyer | 50 | Mid-November 1805 | Mid-September 1811 |
| Ferdinand Jagemann | 51 | No earlier than 1807 | August 1810 |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | – | 1810 | 1813 |
| Wilhelm Schadow | 51 | No earlier than 31.1.1811 | 20.6.1819 |
| Rudolf Schadow | 51 | No earlier than 31.1.1811 | 31.1.1822 |
| Peder Malling | 48 | No earlier than Summer 1811 | Fall 1815 |
| Lauritz Kruse | – | No earlier than 1812 | No later than 1817 |
| C.W. Eckersberg | 48 | 5.7.1813 | 13.5.1816 |
| Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl (1794-1887) | 51 | 1815 | 1818 |
| Adolf Senff | 48 | No earlier than 1816 | No later than 11.7.1848 |
| Luigi Canina | – | No earlier than 1818 | No later than 1856 |
| Julius Eugen Ruhl (1796-1871) | 51 | 1817 | February 1819 |
| Heinrich Lengerich (1790-1865) | 51 | No earlier than 1817 9.11.1822 |
No later than 1821 June 1825 |
| Karl Wilhelm Wach | 48 | 31.5.1817 | June 1819 |
| Hermann Ernst Freund | 46 * | No earlier than 3.5.1818 | 21.12.1827 |
| Jørgen Koch | 51 | 27.5.1818 | No later than 1821 |
| Julius Schoppe (1795-1868) | 51 | April 1819 | February 1821 |
| Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann | 51 | Summer 1819 | 1820 |
| Christian Molbech | 46 | Summer 1820 | Summer 1820 |
| Franz Lauska (1764-1825) | 51 | 1821 | 1822 |
| Paul Mila (1798-1848) | – | 1822 | 1825 |
| Karl Joseph Begas | 48 | 1822 | 1823 |
| Emil Wolff | 51 | 9.11.1822 | No later than 1879 |
| Jacques-Ignace Hittorff | 48 | 28.1.1823 | 15.7.1823 |
| Ludwig Zanth (1796-1857) | 48 | 28.1.1823 | 15.7.1823 |
| Carsten Hauch | – | Summer 1826 | Spring 1827 |
| Antagelig Frederik Ferdinand Friis | – | No earlier than 1828 | No later than 1830 |
| Johann Michael Wittmer | 48-51 | No earlier than 1828 | No later than 1880 |
| Antagelig N. P. Holbech | – | No earlier than 1830 | No later than 1834 |
| Franz Woltreck | 46 | No earlier than 1832 | No later than 1836 |
| Julius Troschel | 51 | May 1834 | Presumably in 1838, but no later than 1863 |
| Pietro Galli | 46 | Mid-August 1838 | Presumably in February 1842 |
| C. F. Holbech | 46 | Presumably in February 1842 | Presumably ca. 1844 |
* In Thorvaldsen’s guest room.
References
- Documents associated with the topic Casa Buti.
- Documents associated with the topic Rent.
- Documents associated with the topic Thorvaldsen’s Cohabitants in Casa Buti.
- Documents associated with the topic Thorvaldsen’s Residences.
- Friedrich Noack: ‘Casa Buti in Rom’, in: Westermanns illustrierte Deutsche Monatshefte für das gesamte geistige Leben der Gegenwart, vol. 45, Braunschweig 1901, p. 788-795.
- Friedrich Noack: Das Deutschtum in Rom seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters, Berlin & Leipzig 1927, bd. 2.
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